Knowing that you love the earth changes you, activates you to defend and protect and celebrate. But when you feel that the earth loves you in return, that feeling transforms the relationship from a one-way street into a sacred bond.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Upper Antelope Canyon, AZ – photo by vichie81, bigstockphoto.com
We have become an impatient species, too busy to let nature replenish itself and too puffed up with our own sense of importance to acknowledge our own dependence on its generosity.
~ David Suzuki
Waterfalls, Plitvice, Croatia – photo by twindesigner, bigstockphoto.com
I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the Universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.
~ Paulo Coelho
Sunrise Seascape, Varna, Bulgaria – photo by Flaviya85, bigstockphoto.com
The world is no more than the Beloved’s single face; in the desire of the One to know it’s own beauty, we exist.
~ Ghalib
Asian Elephants in Deep Forest, Thailand, bigstockphoto by Panom Bounak, bigstockphoto.com
A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
~ Terry Brooks
Elf Garden, Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
Why do humans think
Earth is silent
beneath all that stone and dirt?
Why don’t they hear her as clearly as I do?
The whispers of moonlight,
the summons of sun,
the longing of river
and the shout of thunder.
Earth is not silent.
She speaks in every turning of her axis,
every tilting of her hips,
and in the secrets she shares
with the seasons
and in every tectonic shift.
Earth is not silent.
She speaks through weather
and breathes through forests
and she loves through her trees.
She dances in her the oceans
and she rests in her deserts.
Why do humans think
She is so silent
when she has so much to say?
~ Edveeje Fairchild
Beautiful Norway – photo by Andrey Armyagov, bigstockphoto.com
Physicists now believe that entanglement between particles exists everywhere, all the time, and have recently found shocking evidence that it affects the wider, ‘macroscopic’ world that we inhabit.
~ Dean Radin
Tree and Milky Way – photo by sripfoto, bigstockphoto.com
What if the task is simply to unfold, to become who you already are in your essential nature: gentle, compassionate and capable of living fully and passionately present?
~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Elk at Sunrise – photo by twildlife, bigstockphoto.com
Be a kind voice in this broken-hearted world. Give grace, and be ready to receive it. Listen so well that the person you’re with can rest in your loving attention for a moment. Be a light. Be a light. Be a light.
~ Narea Hoffman
Giant Sequoia, Kings Canyon, Sequoia National Park – photo by Pung Pung, bigstockphoto.com
Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power, and to one another, is grounded in love and compassion.
~ Brene Brown
Sunrise, Huangshan Mountains, China – photo by bamboome, bigstockphoto.com
You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth..
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Sunset, Yosemite Valley – photo by jeffbanke, bigstockphoto.com
If you restore balance in your own self, you will be contributing immensely to the healing of the world.
~ Deepak Chopra
Lotus – photo by Ange DiBennedetto
…everything that has form in this world has a spiritual dimension…everything in this world is connected…everything we do to bring harmony, anywhere and at any time, has repercussions elsewhere.
~ Claude Poncelet, The Shaman Within
Northern Lights, Southern Iceland – photo by Burben, bigstockphoto.com
…the growing body of research on plant and animal cognition suggests that non-human personhood is something we will increasingly have to take seriously.
~ Jack Hunter
Snowy Owl in Flight, Saskatchewan, Canada – photo by photoguy66, bigstockphoto.com
What one thought of kindness can I offer to this world today? What one act of kindness can I offer to those I encounter along the way today? If I were to choose to resonate with qualities of kindness today, what might change in my thinking, perceptions, and overall experience? What if I were to orient, again and again, to the frequency of kindness today, allowing it to be the filter through which I perceive my world, and seek to embody it in all my actions?
~ Nancy J. Napier
Foggy Snowy Landscape, Portage Creek, Michigan – photo by dpennala, bigstockphoto.com
